The Forrest City times., 1887-11-12
GENERAL NEWS.

York is dead.
 There is a great deal of suffering and loss of stock in Southern Kentucky ey reason of the scarcity of water, which has to be hauld for miles for house as well as other uses. The bottoms are alive with hogs and cattle wandering after drink, hundreds of the former being found dead throl gbout the eleva- tions as we'll as on the lower lands. The estimate Of loss to the planters in stock alone is very high. The situation is be- Ing made at prices below anything ever known.
 The attendance at the Dallas (Tex) fair and exposition reached 5000.
 It is said that wm. J. McG arigle, the Chicago, boodler Is in Winnipeg.
 Jay Gould left Saturday afternoon at o'clock on the Umbria for Liverpool.
 In freight wreck near Gainesville, Tex, I50 head of sheep and fifty head of cattle were killed.
 It Is said that Jay Gould hastened the date of his departure on account of threatening letters received from Anarchist sympathizers. Gov. Rush Of Wisconsin has written ! severe letter to the authorities at Marinette county, Wisconsin, demand ing that the dlsreputable dens be broken up.
 A Methodist church committee has recommended the suspension from the ministry of the Rev. H. NJ. Heck, sta- toned at Cedarville, Ohio. At A trial in the Mayors court it was proven that Mir. Heck stole a fatiron from the store of Joshua Wolf, in Xenia.
 On petition of c. P. Huntin gton, In whose favor the company had con fessed judgment for $l, ,g76, William c. Wickham was Thursday, at Charles l ton, W. Va, appointed receiver for the Chesapeake and ohio railroad company.
 Whitaker of Chicago. who started for Charlottesville, Ind, on a twenty four hour bicycle trip, lowered all worlds records from 200 miles to 22a miles.
 At meeting Friday the Western Union stockholders approved the pur- chase of the Baltimore and Ohio lines. Lima Geissert, daughter of Milwau- kee (Wis.) saloon-keeper, poured kero- sene over her clothes Friday, and then applied a match to her dress. She was in flames in an instant. and before she could be rescued was fatally burned She wac released from an insane asy- lum a short time ago.
 A large number of bankers and mer- chants petitioned Postmaster-G eneral Villas to use his influence with postal union countries to dispatch foreign mails by the fastest steamers.
 The Rev. James MeTighe, the Catholic priest recently elected prIn- cipal of public school at Pittsburg, has rendered his resignation and ordered the Catholic children back to the parochial school.
 Monday morning, at Cincinnati, Mrs. Katie Miller threw her 9-year-old daughter from a thiyd-story window and instantly leaped after her. The woman, who was insane, was killed, and the child fatally injured. | Receiver Armstrong began at Cin- einnati Monday the payment of the first dividend of 25 per cent to deposi- tors of the wrecked Fidelity Bank.
 James R. whitely, brother of the great reaper manuf. cturer, com nitted suicide Monday morning at Springfield, Ohio, shooting himself through the head.
 Ebenezer T. Waldly, a prominent banker of Adrain, Mieh., died early Monday morning. He began active life ss a printer, but became banker and died wealthy.
 One of the mills of the American Cotton-seed Oil Company at Cincinnati was destroyed by fire Monday after noon. the loss reaching slOo,Ooo, with heavy insurance.
 Cholera reports from New York are becoming of more serious tenor.
 October coinage was 16. ,s70, of which 5, 450,OOo was in standard silver dollars.
 Ben Halliday's famous "ophir farm," near New York city, has been sold to D. o. Mills.
 The decrease of the public debt dur ing October was Sl6. .s33, ,s95; since June 30, $40, ,736.035.